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".MatchTextExactly = true" not always the case, please help.
I've written an Excel macro that searches through a list of files using
Application .FileSearch in a specified location created by another application, and then does some other stuff with those files. The macro looks for a standard filename to know which files are which, and I built in a check to stop the routine if it comes across multiple files with the same name, in case the other application was run multiple times resulting in multiple copies of the files. The problem is that the output files from the other application have some similarity, for example: "1A.eplmdf" "LA1A.eplmdf" "S01A.eplmdf" I set the .MatchTextExactly field equal to "True" which I thought would make FileSearch actually match the text exactly, but instead if it's seeing all of the files listed above with "1A.eplmdf" in their name. Is there some way I can have it look for just "1A.eplmdf" and not see all of the other files that have "1A.eplmdf" in their name? Thanks. |
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".MatchTextExactly = true" not always the case, please help.
Are you using TextorProperty instead of Filename? MatchTextExactly is
behaving the way it is supposed to. __________________________________________________ ____________________ "tenlbham" wrote in message ... I've written an Excel macro that searches through a list of files using Application .FileSearch in a specified location created by another application, and then does some other stuff with those files. The macro looks for a standard filename to know which files are which, and I built in a check to stop the routine if it comes across multiple files with the same name, in case the other application was run multiple times resulting in multiple copies of the files. The problem is that the output files from the other application have some similarity, for example: "1A.eplmdf" "LA1A.eplmdf" "S01A.eplmdf" I set the .MatchTextExactly field equal to "True" which I thought would make FileSearch actually match the text exactly, but instead if it's seeing all of the files listed above with "1A.eplmdf" in their name. Is there some way I can have it look for just "1A.eplmdf" and not see all of the other files that have "1A.eplmdf" in their name? Thanks. |
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".MatchTextExactly = true" not always the case, please help.
matchtextexactly is a setting for when you are looking for files containing a
specific string. It has nothing to do with the filenames. just get a list of probable files and loop through them picking out the exact matches. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "tenlbham" wrote: I've written an Excel macro that searches through a list of files using Application .FileSearch in a specified location created by another application, and then does some other stuff with those files. The macro looks for a standard filename to know which files are which, and I built in a check to stop the routine if it comes across multiple files with the same name, in case the other application was run multiple times resulting in multiple copies of the files. The problem is that the output files from the other application have some similarity, for example: "1A.eplmdf" "LA1A.eplmdf" "S01A.eplmdf" I set the .MatchTextExactly field equal to "True" which I thought would make FileSearch actually match the text exactly, but instead if it's seeing all of the files listed above with "1A.eplmdf" in their name. Is there some way I can have it look for just "1A.eplmdf" and not see all of the other files that have "1A.eplmdf" in their name? Thanks. |
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".MatchTextExactly = true" not always the case, please help.
Ok, so if MatchTextExactly is searching for a string, is there another
parameter I can use to have FileSearch look for nothing else outside that string? Or modify the search to look for nothing outside the string? I'd like to keep from adding more code to search for results within the search results. Thanks. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote: matchtextexactly is a setting for when you are looking for files containing a specific string. It has nothing to do with the filenames. just get a list of probable files and loop through them picking out the exact matches. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "tenlbham" wrote: I've written an Excel macro that searches through a list of files using Application .FileSearch in a specified location created by another application, and then does some other stuff with those files. The macro looks for a standard filename to know which files are which, and I built in a check to stop the routine if it comes across multiple files with the same name, in case the other application was run multiple times resulting in multiple copies of the files. The problem is that the output files from the other application have some similarity, for example: "1A.eplmdf" "LA1A.eplmdf" "S01A.eplmdf" I set the .MatchTextExactly field equal to "True" which I thought would make FileSearch actually match the text exactly, but instead if it's seeing all of the files listed above with "1A.eplmdf" in their name. Is there some way I can have it look for just "1A.eplmdf" and not see all of the other files that have "1A.eplmdf" in their name? Thanks. |
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".MatchTextExactly = true" not always the case, please help.
Not sure exactly what you are after (I'd drop the .FileSearch), but
something like this ? Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() Dim FileName As String Const PATH As String = "C:\" Const FILTER As String = "??" Const EXT As String = ".txt" FileName = Dir(PATH & FILTER & EXT) Do While FileName < "" Debug.Print FileName FileName = Dir() Loop End Sub For 2 characters only in the filename, use Const FILTER As String = "??" For anything that ends in 1A in the filename, use Const FILTER As String = "*1A" ...etc If you need complex filtering, then get the filename and apply some LIKE expression or resort to Regular Expressions. NickHK "tenlbham" wrote in message ... I've written an Excel macro that searches through a list of files using Application .FileSearch in a specified location created by another application, and then does some other stuff with those files. The macro looks for a standard filename to know which files are which, and I built in a check to stop the routine if it comes across multiple files with the same name, in case the other application was run multiple times resulting in multiple copies of the files. The problem is that the output files from the other application have some similarity, for example: "1A.eplmdf" "LA1A.eplmdf" "S01A.eplmdf" I set the .MatchTextExactly field equal to "True" which I thought would make FileSearch actually match the text exactly, but instead if it's seeing all of the files listed above with "1A.eplmdf" in their name. Is there some way I can have it look for just "1A.eplmdf" and not see all of the other files that have "1A.eplmdf" in their name? Thanks. |
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